Your 2 Cents' Worth: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

To Tattooed in south-central Iowa: I'm sure many with multiple tattoos and piercings are very nice. But I'm not required to make any effort to know them enough to find out. If they choose to look like that they must understand most normal people will want to stay away from them. That's just how society is!

- Sorry, but your appearance puts me off!

A woman at the Windsor Heights Hy-Vee went through the "12 items or less" express lane - with 28 items. I had one. And then she had the gall to pull out a checkbook. The daughter with her is an employee. C'mon. Really?

- Express lane, my foot

Farmers get a lot of taxpayer-funded subsidies. When was the last time a farmer thanked you, the taxpayer, for his tax-funded payments? I'm still waiting.

- Polk County Taxpayer

With all the talk about the renaming of Nollen Plaza to Cowles Commons it might be wise to revisit history. The Brenton family donated the land for both the commons and the Civic Center. And all they get for it decades later is their name on a stinkin' ice skating rink.

- Sort of amused in 50309T

o Pleasant Hill residents and the warehouse issue: When the council is getting too big for their britches and go with big companies and not what the people want, just remember them at election time. That is all they understand.

- Less you forget!

Some in Congress want to defund the Affordable Health Care Act because polls show less than 50 percent of folks want it. By that reasoning, Congress should definitely be defunded since polls show less than a 15 percent approval rate.

- Puzzled, 50317

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Your 2 Cents' Worth: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

To Tattooed in south-central Iowa: I'm sure many with multiple tattoos and piercings are very nice. But I'm not required to make any effort to know them enough to find out.